Members of the House judiciary committee warned the Obama administration and the intelligence agencies that unless they backed a bill to end the bulk domestic phone records collection, they would lose even more counter-terrorism powers under Section 215 when the provision expires in June 2015. That bill, known as the USA Freedom Act, is the chief legislative vehicle to end the mass domestic metadata collection.80

Where do government agencies get their information? Your phone company and my phone company are selling our information to the government. While all the phone companies claim that ...